A natural history of foreign quadrupeds

by: Bewick, Thomas,1753-1828; Nicholson, Isaac,1789-1848; Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc,comte de,1707-1788; Davison, William,1780-1858,printer

Publication date: 1820

Topics: Zoology -- Pictorial works., Mammals -- Juvenile literature., Natural history -- Juvenile literature., Chapbooks -- Specimens., Chapbooks -- England -- Alnwick -- 19th century, McGill University Library Digitized Title, McGill Library's Chapbook Collection, Zoology, Mammals, Natural history, Chapbooks

Publisher: Alnwick : Printed and sold ... by W. Davison

Collection: mcgilluniversitychapbook; mcgilluniversity; toronto

Contributor: McGill University Library

Language: English

36 p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 14 cm.

"Thirty-four engravings on wood."

First sentence: ""As the rein-deer to the frozen countries of the Pole, is horse, cow and sheep; so is the camel to the parched native of Arabia."

One of 7 chapbooks issued by Davison as an abridgement of Buffon's "System of natural history," an itself abridged English translation of his "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière": Davison, 1814; the chapbooks dated by Tattersfield "around 1819."

The woodcuts have been attributed to Thomas Bewick and his workshop by Hugo (in Bewick collector, p. 109-110); Tattersfield claims nothing in the chapbooks to be by Bewick (in Thomas Bewick, v. 2, p. 935) naming as the probable engraver Isaac Nicholson, a former Bewick apprentice

Hugo, T. Bewick collector

Osborne Coll.

Tattersfield, N. Thomas Bewick

Wood, C.A. Vertebrate zoology

Copy in Bourke Coll.: one of 3 titles bound together, in a set of 3 volumes; from vol. 1, bound with: A natural history of foreign birds and The youngster's diary; or Youth's remembrancer of natural events; with binder's spine title: Birds, Quadrup, Diary, 1824. Bound together subsequent to publication

Bourke copy three-quarters bound; marbled paper boards

Bewick copy: the engravings hand-coloured

Bewick copy with: A natural history of reptiles, serpents, and insects. Printed and sold ... by W. Davison, [ca. 1820]. Bound together subsequent to publication

Addeddate: 2014-02-14 18:55:41

Callnumber: RBD BW OT B46nf cutter 1 Rare Books/Special Collections - Blacker Wood Rare Books (McLennan Bldg, 4th floor)
RBD BOUR PN970 D39 B49 1820 Rare Books/Special Collections - Sheila R. Bourke Collection (McLennan Bldg, 4th floor)

Identifier: McGillLibrary-PN970_D39_B49_1820_v_1_001099228-1906

Identifier-ark: ark:/13960/t10p3mt9n

Note: "Thirty-four engravings on wood."
First sentence: ""As the rein-deer to the frozen countries of the Pole, is horse, cow and sheep; so is the camel to the parched native of Arabia."
One of 7 chapbooks issued by Davison as an abridgement of Buffon's "System of natural history," an itself abridged English translation of his "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière": Davison, 1814; the chapbooks dated by Tattersfield "around 1819."
The woodcuts have been attributed to Thomas Bewick and his workshop by Hugo (in Bewick collector, p. 109-110); Tattersfield claims nothing in the chapbooks to be by Bewick (in Thomas Bewick, v. 2, p. 935) naming as the probable engraver Isaac Nicholson, a former Bewick apprentice.
Hugo, T. Bewick collector, 294
Osborne Coll., p. 209
Tattersfield, N. Thomas Bewick, v. 2, p. 934-935
Wood, C.A. Vertebrate zoology, p. 237
Copy in Bourke Coll.: one of 3 titles bound together, in a set of 3 volumes; from vol. 1, bound with: A natural history of foreign birds and The youngster's diary; or Youth's remembrancer of natural events; with binder's spine title: Birds, Quadrup, Diary, 1824. Bound together subsequent to publication.
Bourke copy three-quarters bound; marbled paper boards.
Bewick copy: the engravings hand-coloured.
Bewick copy with: A natural history of reptiles, serpents, and insects. Printed and sold ... by W. Davison, [ca. 1820]. Bound together subsequent to publication.